Baling-press.



No. 781,975. PATENTED FEB. '7, 1905. J. M. & E. VALENTINE.

BALING PRESS.

ALPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1, 1903.

Patented February '7, 1905 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. VALENTINE AND EDIVARD VALENTINE, OE LINCOLN, ILLINOIS,ASSIONORS OF ONE-HALF TO NATHAN E. LANDAUER, OE LINCOLN,

ILLINOIS.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,975, dated February7, 1905. Original application filed May 6,1903, Serial No. 155,919.Divided and this application filed September 1, 1903. Serial No.171,504.

To all l/'/1/"1I/ it 'nt/t concern:

Be it known that we, J osnrn l\/I.VALENTINE and EDWARDVALENIINE,citizens of the United States, residing at Lincoln, in the county ofLogan and State of Illinois, have invented a Bailing-Press, of which thefollowing is a specilication.

This application is a division of the application filed May 6, 1903,hearing Serial No. 155,919, and relates especially to the particularmeans for operating the piston of the baling-press through theintervention of a chain extending from an oscillating horse-power.

The invention forming the subject-matter of the present application isparticularly described and claimed herein, while the horsepowermechanism for imparting a reciprocating motion to the chain is describedand claimed in the aforesaid application.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of the presentapplication, Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating the applicationof the invention and including only so much of a baling-press as to showsuch application. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the lever.

The bal ingpress is shown as supported upon wheels for convenience intransporting the same from place to place, and consists of the balingboxI, mounted upon longitudinal beams 2 which extend to the rear axle 3,and is braced by means of inclined beams 4 extending rearward from theupper part of said baling-box and connected at their rear ends to shortvertical standards 5, which latter rise from the main horizontal beams2.

Between the beams 2 and at are bolted or V therwise firmly securedbearing-boxes 6, in which is journaled a lever 7 by means of thegudgeons or stub-axles 8, projecting laterally from an intermediateportion of said lever.

The lever T is formed at one end with asegmental eccentric 9. disposedat one side of its fulcrum. and at the other side of its fulcrum is inthe shape of a curved arm 10', being pro-.

vided with a correspondingly-curved slot 11, and terminating in a lug12, by which latter is attached thereto one end of a chain 13. Theperiphery of the segmental portion of the lever is grooved,and the chain13 extends from its connection with the lug 12 to and over the segmentaleccent ic in the grooved periphery thereof and passes downward therefromto a guide-pulley l-I and from which latter it is led to thehorse-power.

The guide-pulley 14: is supported below the frame of the baling-press ina bracket 15, the disposition of the latter being changeable, so thatthe chain may be led to the rear of the baling-press in the event of adirector longitudinal draft or arranged at right angles to such formerposition to lead the chain out at one side of the baling-press in theevent of a lateral draft.

The piston-rod 16 of the baling-press, which is pivoted to the piston,as is usual, is connected at its rear end to the curved arm of the lever'7 by a bolt 17 passing through the slot in said arm, and when the leveris thrown to the position shown in the drawings, with the pistonretracted, the bolt connection is at the outer end of the slot, giving afull rearward movement to the piston. Now upon compressing a bale andupon the initial movement of the lever the curved arm rides upon thebolt connection,starting the piston slowly forward or until a moreeffective leverage is obtained.

The movement of the lever in the direction to impart a forward motion tothe piston is imparted byway of a direct pull upon the chain 13, and inorder to return the piston and lever to its first position when thechain is slackened strong helical springs 18 are connected at one end tothe piston of the balingpress and at the other end to thesupportingframe to the inclined beams a, as shown in the drawings.

It will be noted that by providing the baling-press with a leverconstructed as herein particularly shown and described a considerablerange of movement is given to the piston and that the power is appliedin a manner as to be most effective.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a baling-press, the combination with the baling-box and frameprojecting rearwardly therefrom, of a rock-arm comprising a segment andupwardly-curved slotted arm projecting therefrom opposite the fulcrum,said arm terminating in a boss, a pair of beams for connecting therock-arm to the follower and extending at opposite sides of the rockarmand connected thereto by a bolt passing through the slot in the curvedarm portion thereof, a bracket depending from the rearwardly-projectingframe of the baling-press, a grooved guide-roller removably mounted insaid bracket, and a chain connected at one end to the boss on therock-arm, passing over the segmental portion of said rock-arm and underJOSEPH M. VALENTINE. EDWARD VALENTINE.

Witnesses:

VEs'rA CADWALLADER, A. D. CADWALLADER.

